£1.1m investment in underwater wireless communication
by Jan Harris
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A consortium led by Wireless Fibre Systems has secured £560,000 funding for a two-year research project into technologies to allow divers and machines to communicate wirelessly underwater.
The funding from the Department of Trade and Industry will part-fund the £1.1m project, which hopes to develop equipment to transmit data wirelessly underwater. Initially it is expected to work over fairly short distances.
The technology will allow divers to communicate without having to use hand signals, which work well in clear water, but have limited use in waters where visibility is poor.
The technology could have wide reaching applications in areas such as oceanography and environmental monitoring. It could also significantly improve safety for professional divers working in the oil and gas industries.
The project is developing an ‘underwater radio’, which works like a wireless modem and can transmit data to and from unmanned machinery in deep sea.
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